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Agrippa Hull: a Stockbridge Patriot 2011 Diverse Spring 2011 Semester The Spring semester begins on April 11 and continues through May 27. An exciting and eclectic array of courses will be offered at venues through- out the county. Please see the Spring 2011 Catalog or visit our website at www.BerkshireOLLI.org for information about the classes. MONDAY BCC Pittsfield and Great Barrington Parallel Universes: The Stagecraft of Tom Stoppard – Larry Robbins A Survey of American Literature: Women Find Their Voice – James Kraft American History: The Right and Wrong Way to Think About It – Robert Jakubowicz Lecturers Larry Greenapple and Sue Arkans TUESDAY Bard College at Simons Rock; Canyon Ranch; BCC Pittsfield Great Decisions – James Cotter Stress and Your Health – Kelly Clady-Giramma, Tereza Hubkova, Janet Lee, Robert Pollock, Jeff Rossman, Chrissy Wellington Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – David Fine Basic Ballroom Dancing: Cha-Cha – Sal Angelo OLLI Photo Contest PRIZE: The winning photos will be WEDNESDAY Bennington Museum, VT; The Clark; Williams College on the cover of the Fall 2011 catalog, The Short Stories of Herman Melville - Lea Newman and the winner will receive a 1-year Two American Masters of the Brush: Homer and Sargent – Jock Brooks free membership to OLLI. Medicine, Film and Society – Melvin Krant THEME: Berkshire area fall scene The Financial Crisis of 2007-08 and Its Aftermath – David Greenapple, Larry Greenapple SPECS: Digital format (jpeg, tiff, The Beauty of Fractals and Their Underlying Mathematics – Cesar Silva bmp), 3.2 mega-pixels or greater Good Vibrations: An Exploration of Brass and Percussion Instruments DEADLINE: May 20, 2011 Tom Bergeron, Fleur Barnes-Rowell, Matthew Gold, Edwin Lawrence, David Wampler SUBMIT: E-mail attached photos to Selected Stories of Jorge Luis Borges – Gene Bell-Villada [email protected]. Visit www.BerkshireOLLI.org for THURSDAY Hancock Shaker Village; Castle Street Café, Great Barrington further details. Birding for Beginners – Ed Neumuth Starships and Spirituality: Religious Themes in Science Fiction and Fantasy Spring Photo Rabbi Josh Breindel Today’s Headlines – Ann Trabulsi, Richard Whitehead Contest Winner Wine Appreciation VI: L’Chaim! Sk˚al! Cheers! – Bruce Beckwith, Steve Dixon, The photo “Magnolia Tree” appeared Bill Erwin, Ben Glick, Joe Nejaime, Jack Rubin on the cover of the Spring 2011 Catalog. It was taken in Sheffield by FRIDAY BCC Pittsfield and Great Barrington; National Archives, Pittsfield John MacGruer with a Canon EOS Open Painting Studio – Sue Arkans, Bobbie Lefenfeld Digital Rebel XT camera at 1/160 Genealogy and the National Archives – Jean Nudd sec., f/16, ISO 200. Travel Adventures – Dick Curtis, Gerri Griswold, Elske Smith, William Vogt President’s Message Spring has arrived and the new To achieve this goal, the OLLI say that we were awarded the second semester looks fantastic with an Board created a Membership Task $1 million for our endowment. The eclectic mix of courses which should Force and at the same time charged the Board, our committees and many satisfy our members’ diverse interests. Curriculum Council with developing members—all working together—are It continues to amaze me how our programming that would attract responsible for this growth. committees develop these exemplary new people with varied interests. We also must recognize our courses. So in addition to the intellectually Executive Director Barbara Hochberg This is my last president’s mes- stimulating courses, our stock-in-trade, who has been the driving force in sage; my term expires in May. It we began to offer new courses such as our success. She has done a remark- has been a time filled with growth cooking, open painting studio and basic able job guiding OLLI at BCC. And in membership, in course offerings ballroom dancing. New advertising now, because we have the increased and in the OLLI endowment fund. campaigns, videoconferencing classes endowment, Barbara’s position has When we received our first endow- from Pittsfield to Great Barrington become full time. ment gift of $1million from the Osher and from Williamstown to Great It has been an honor being Foundation, we had 850 members. Barrington, the OLLI Art Show and President of the Board of OLLI at The Osher Foundation informed us the Mona Sherman Memorial Lecture BCC, and I know OLLI will continue that if our membership topped 1,000 were a few innovations that spurred on its positive path. we would be eligible for another the membership. We now have over $1 million to add to our endowment. 1,000 members, and I am thrilled to Getting to Know picture tells you to stand to observe London and Edinburgh. In 2000, he it from the best vantage point and came to The Clark to begin work as Michael Cassin discovering the message of the work. the Curator of Education. Michael feels that connecting with This leading educator has presented Michael Cassin is the Director of students requires the ability to create symposia on museum education The Sterling and Francine Clark Art a balance between conversation and throughout the United States and the Institute’s Center for Education in performance. His goal is always to world to docents and teachers. He has the Visual Arts, a position he has held involve and excite them so he can written numerous books and articles since 2007. The depth and about the visual arts as related breadth of his knowledge to other curriculum subjects of art history and his ability such as drama, music and to engage with others to history. share this knowledge is Michael has taught several well known to those in the classes for OLLI members. OLLI community who have The next series of lectures attended his classes. will take place from 1:00 to I was invited by Michael 2:30 p.m. on four consecutive to observe his work with a Thursdays: March 3, March 10, high school history class. His March 17 and March 24. They first goal was to personally will deal with the great capitals engage with the students. of art through the centuries Informal banter and first-name demonstrate art’s wonder and magic. including Florence, Amsterdam, Paris acquaintance set the tone for the open Michael Cassin was born and and New York. exchange of ideas that would follow. educated in England. He attended We are grateful to Michael for He discussed how to explore a piece Xaverian College and Leeds University. sharing his knowledge, his enthusiasm of art and connect with it by looking Beginning in 1976, he held several and his time with OLLI. at the image(s), finding where the positions in Essex, Southampton, — Fran Wolk, Editorial Staff OLLI NEWSLETTER Editor: Sandra Rubin • Associate Editor: Marilyn Margolis • Assistant Editors: Peri Caverly, Marge Lewis, Wilma Michaels • Editorial Staff: Norman Avnet, Joanna Fribush, Judy Katz, Robert Rosen, Helen-Mary Shaffer, Art Sherman, Fran Wolk 2 DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER SERIES OLLI at BCC Annual Meeting and Michael Cassin, Capitals of Art the Third Annual Mona Sherman at The Clark March 4: 15th Century Florence Memorial Lecture March 10: 17th Century Amsterdam March 17: 19th Century Paris OLLI at BCC’s Annual Meeting will be March 24: 20th Century New York held on Friday, May 20, 2011, at 5:15 p.m. at The Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield. It June 11 – Stacy Wallach, “Manhattan will be followed at 6:00 p.m. by the third Skyscraper History: From Iconic annual Mona Sherman Memorial Lecture. to Ironic,” BCC The Annual Meeting is an important time June 25 – Jeremy Yudkin for all OLLI members to gather, to review “Romanticism and Music,” BCC the work of the organization during the July 10 – Aaron Gurwitz, “If Lehman past year and to learn of the Board of Had Not Been Allowed to Fail” Directors’ plans for 2011-12. The election Hancock Shaker Village of members to the Board of Directors will July 23 – Judy Hellman, “The World also take place at the meeting. of Mexican Migrants,” BCC The Mona Sherman Memorial Lecture August 20 – Steve Hellman honors Mona, an active and influential “Contemporary Italian Politics: force in the evolution of the Berkshire The Never-ending Transition,” BCC Institute for Lifetime Learning (BILL) August 27 – Adam Segal, “Advantage: to our current Osher Lifelong Learning How American Innovation Can Institute (OLLI). Mona served as President Mark Halperin Overcome the Asian Challenge” and Curriculum Chair of BILL and was responsible for instituting the Distinguished Speaker Series. At the time of her death, she was serving on the OLLI Board. In her memory and in recognition SPECIAL EVENTS CALENDAR of her devotion to BILL/OLLI, the Sherman family instituted the lecture series March 7 – Cross Country Skiing, with gifts to an OLLI fund in Mona’s name. During the first two years, Mika Notchview Reservation Brzezinski of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and Jane Velez-Mitchell of HLN were March 12 – MASS MoCA, tour and guest lecturers. lunch This year the speaker will be Mark Halperin and his topic will be “Defining March 30 – Pool/Billiard Mixer, Otis Hope and Change: Barack Obama and What Comes Next.” He will take Recreation Center questions from the audience following the lecture. Halperin is Editor-at- May 13 – Albany, Tour of State Large and Senior Political Analyst for TIME. He covers politics, elections and Capitol, Lunch at Lombardo’s, government for the magazine and TIME.com. He is also the creator and author Duck Tour in Hudson River of TIME.com’s “The Page,” a news and analysis tip sheet that along with his May 31 – Wine Course Banquet, own analysis gathers and edits the latest political stories, campaign ads, TV “The Final Exam,” Castle Street clips, videos and campaign reactions from every news source. In addition, Café (open to all OLLI members) Halperin is senior political analyst for MSNBC, where he appears regularly on June 25 – Jacob’s Pillow Dance “Morning Joe” as well as other programs on the cable channel.
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